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An insane mind posted:I still don't get how this game got on steam. Is it just edge lords being edgy? Because Valve literally doesn't care unless it gains some sort of media attention. Rapeday probably would have been quietly approved if the title wasn't so obviously a troll.
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The only thing you need to do to get a game on Steam is to give Valve money. That is the beginning and end of their vetting process.
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Mar 20, 2019 20:08
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Just caught this article in my newsfeed, and I think the headline does it a disservice - I've quoted below the parts I wish they had actually focused on: Rami Ismail tells Valve “sucks to be you” over Epic store exclusives Edit: also it's all quotes from the full interview here, which has a lot more detail and criticism directed at Epic: https://www.pcgamesn.com/rami-ismail-interview “there’s an entire generation of indie game developers that got wiped out because of an algorithmic change in Valve’s recommendation algorithms and they said, ‘Well that’s just what the data said’. Well here’s what the data said, it said that Metro Exodus is not on Steam because the deal Epic gave [developer 4A Games] was better. Valve is now going to have to come to terms with the fact that it’s not the only major platform holder on the market, but Ismail suggests that the company isn’t likely to flounder repeatedly as it does so – “they’ll make some misses, but not always.” “You can tell that they’re a game developer at heart. They’re iterative and that’s sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. I hope they stay around because seeing them iterate through the problem of ‘poo poo, we have a competitor now’ – hopefully it’ll be hilarious.” And that's my point. Everyone is mad about Epic having exclusives and the quality of Epic's store and their business practices - and that's all valid, but Steam having REAL competition is extremely important and needed to happen YEARS ago. I might not ever buy a game from the Epic store in the foreseeable future, but I'm glad it exists because of the possibility it will make Steam - and the marketplace as a whole - better. Because clearly they won't do it on their own, as time has proven. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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Mar 20, 2019 20:23
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Just caught this article in my newsfeed, and I think the headline does it a disservice - I've quoted below the parts I wish they had actually focused on: The epic store is hilarious because it's trying to bill itself as killing steam and it can't even match steams actual competitors in origin and good old games. Massing exclusives to get people into your storefront is a good strategy, but you need a storefront worth a drat to keep the people that brings in. Meanwhile epic is bringing people into a storefront that can't even stop itself from illegally scanning people's private steam files. It's not even trying to run before you can walk, it's trying to ride a bike before they can crawl.
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Mar 20, 2019 20:30
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That's all true, and I'm not defending Epic. Again, I'm just glad that finally SOMEONE has the resources to actually have a chance at competing with Steam, and maybe, MAYBE someday they'll put some effort into their store not being full of kawaii Hitler games.
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Mar 20, 2019 20:36
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edit: Nevermind, I was thinking of a different digital media company called Epik
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Mar 20, 2019 22:03
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On topic to the discussion and the thread!  https://www.pcgamer.com/detroit-become-human-beyond-two-souls-and-heavy-rain-are-coming-to-pc/ I love all of these games but they are terrible awful and feature awkward and out of place nudity and sex.
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Mar 20, 2019 23:51
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I recall Detroit being Cage's most successful game yet and it's metacritic user score is a whopping 8.6 at 2.6k reviews, I feel like goon and public opinion clash harder with that guy's games than with almost anything else.
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Mar 21, 2019 00:00
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https://www.pcgamer.com/the-epic-store-wont-accept-crappy-games-says-ceo-tim-sweeney// Haha, good luck with that.
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Mar 21, 2019 01:18
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:https://www.pcgamer.com/the-epic-store-wont-accept-crappy-games-says-ceo-tim-sweeney// but they already have Fortnite 
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Mar 21, 2019 01:38
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Ismail being the voice of indie game dev is so loving rad
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Mar 21, 2019 02:02
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Kanfy posted:I recall Detroit being Cage's most successful game yet and it's metacritic user score is a whopping 8.6 at 2.6k reviews, I feel like goon and public opinion clash harder with that guy's games than with almost anything else. Cage's games are basically the gaming equivalent of Oscar bait, in visual novel form.
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Mar 21, 2019 02:35
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:https://www.pcgamer.com/the-epic-store-wont-accept-crappy-games-says-ceo-tim-sweeney// It's pretty easy for a store with gently caress all in it to curate itself though. What's that? They added this hunk of garbage already? whoops
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Mar 21, 2019 03:12
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Epic has already said that they want to be able to open the floodgates like steam, and there's zero reason why they wouldn't do that because they get a cut of all the sales done on their platform and through humble. Ismail is being extremely shortsighted about this and is insufferably smug about it as always.
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Mar 21, 2019 03:45
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Obsidian's next game Outer Worlds is an Epic exclusive so looks like we have to use it soon if we don't already. It must be funny though that kids think they're named Epic because of memes or whatever when it has been their name since the 90s.
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Mar 21, 2019 04:59
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The MSJ posted:It must be funny though that kids think they're named Epic because of memes or whatever when it has been their name since the 90s.
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Mar 21, 2019 06:32
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:People are dismissing it because it's making light of the horrors of fascism not because its anime If you're talking about the vn then yeah that's bad but otherwise I will never not find this hilarious
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Mar 21, 2019 06:39
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SelenicMartian posted:Epic had the phrase 'Epic Rulez' plastered all over Jill of the Jungle. They were probably trying to make themselves a meme for ages. Oh I dunno.  
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Mar 21, 2019 06:54
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Somfin posted:Ismail being the voice of indie game dev is so loving rad If only he could have finished Nuclear Throne instead of abandoning it without telling anyone and paying one dude to put out the last (bugfix) patch which took him like a year to do and then hosed off into the night. I'd probably be less harsh if Ismail hadn't spent a year insisting that the Vita version of the patch was holding back all the other versions from being published. I'm still not sure the consoles ever got that patch either. Kchama fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Mar 21, 2019 14:29
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What the hell are you talking about?
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Mar 21, 2019 14:31
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Glagha posted:What the hell are you talking about? Nuclear Throne's final patch took like a year and was done by the Nuclear Throne Together guy because Vlambeer abandoned the game. They kept insisting the delay was due to Vita certification and then when the patch was finally ready suddenly announced it was the final patch and that was that despite the game being blatantly unfinished. It was a real shame as I like the game a lot but left a real bad taste in my mouth for the devs.
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Mar 21, 2019 14:35
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I mean I understood the words you said but like, in what way is the game unfinished?
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Mar 21, 2019 14:40
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Glagha posted:I mean I understood the words you said but like, in what way is the game unfinished? Oh sorry. The way you phrased it made it sound like I was real unclear. Placeholder stuff's still in the game for a lot of things. Like the Oasis unlock is suppose to have some other boss instead of yet another Big Bandit but they never finished the boss. The character they were working on for release isn't finished (Cuz). The entire looping system in general was only in as a placeholder for a proper progression and ending and was gonna be like an optional challenge mode is more or less now the entire gameplay, and they just threw in (one of?) the final intended level as a secret in the loop. A lot of story elements are in and meant to lead somewhere but just doesn't as a result. It's a real drat shame as a lot of it was real interesting. The long story short for all of this is that Vlambeer burned themselves going too hard on updates and decided to just never update again outside of getting the Nuclear Throne Together guy to throw together one last update.
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SelenicMartian posted:It's way cheaper in my region. I just hope Tamsoft does more insane poo poo from the ps2 days, and not under an anime license. The price isn't the problem you loving creep
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Mar 21, 2019 20:46
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Yeah ok I think we can stop jumping all over posts from 2 days ago, pervy or not
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FirstAidKite posted:All these porn games on steam and nobody's even put up a version of Miss World '96 Nude The day Bible Black goes on to Steam I'm just going to start laughing and never stop. Get on the bus, laugh. In the office, laugh, to the concern of my teammates. Laugh between bites at lunch. Get coffee stains on my shirt because I'm laughing through sips. And so forth.
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SardonicTyrant posted:The day Bible Black goes on to Steam I'm just going to start laughing and never stop. Get on the bus, laugh. In the office, laugh, to the concern of my teammates. Laugh between bites at lunch. Get coffee stains on my shirt because I'm laughing through sips. And so forth. dang, i don't think i'll ever feel such pure joy about anything. you must really love bible black.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:dang, i don't think i'll ever feel such pure joy about anything. you must really love bible black. Who doesn't? It's not my thing but the Bible or faith itself can bring comfort in th-... What? *googles* Oh...oh dear me. 
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Mar 22, 2019 00:22
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I've seen Bible Black in a theater.
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rodbeard posted:I've seen Bible Black in a theater. drat, anime club is real!?
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An insane mind posted:Who doesn't? It's not my thing but the Bible or faith itself can bring comfort in th-... Oh god, what did I just google? IMDB posted:Did You Know? Why am I not surprised? It's not skeevy enough if it's not literal child porn.
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Please at this time do not taint the funny humor of miss world 96 nude, more specifically my memories of the funny review of it by seanbaby that I read probably over a decade ago now, by bringing up bible black in comparison, thank you
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FoolyCharged posted:Why am I not surprised? It's not skeevy enough if it's not literal child porn. Can't say I know anything about Bible Black, but I think senior high school in Japan runs up to age 18.
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Kanfy posted:Can't say I know anything about Bible Black, but I think senior high school in Japan runs up to age 18. IMDB posted:At a harmless looking College, the teachers and staff are practicing a dark religion. By devoting their bodies to perversity, they chant their dark spells and control the lusts of the student body. Everywhere the students turn, they are drawn to acts of perversion, even in public. Perhaps the school nurse has the answer, as she holds special counseling sessions for the female students. so.... yeah. Probably literal depictions of minors having sex.
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Kanfy posted:Can't say I know anything about Bible Black, but I think senior high school in Japan runs up to age 18. I also don't know anything about BB, though, and "technically legal" porn is still kinda skeevy anyways, so 
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Commander Keene posted:I also don't know anything about BB, though, and "technically legal" porn is still kinda skeevy anyways, so Yeah, the West has more than enough school-themed porn to not have the moral high ground here. Besides, if this thread has shown anything it's that Japanese porn has more than enough other issues to worry about.
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FirstAidKite posted:the funny review of it by seanbaby that I read probably over a decade ago now, probably closer to 20 years by this point in that i found a link to it in a forum post from 2003 Craig K fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Mar 22, 2019 03:57
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I read it in Electronic Gaming Monthly
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Where do terrible shovelware games come from? Here's one answer. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/a-dev-trained-robots-to-generate-garbage-slot-machine-games-and-made-50k/ quote:They teamed up during the 2013 Global Game Jam to push something out that resembled the "race to the bottom" they saw on mobile platforms. Thanks to the time-restricted nature of a game jam, they opted to buy a 3D slot machine asset off of the Unity Store (a marketplace that lets game makers pay modelers and animators for unrestricted use of various 2D and 3D assets) for $15. They then spent the rest of the jam creating a system that would automatically generate the rest of the skinning needed to make this basic virtual slot machine just unique enough to be published as its own smartphone app.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Oh I dunno. Epic needs to add "Megagames" back into their name.
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